SWIM's been using benzos off and on for a couple years. This past year, again, week on, week off, sometimes up to 3-4 mg kpin/day.
SWIM this past month however, has fell into a bunch of xanax, valium, and RC benzos, and have been taking it everyday for the last 4 weeks. SWIM's Tolerance has shot up to the point where 4-5 xanax may not even affect SWIM.
However, SWIM has never felt benzo WD's, and the only WD's he felt was hightened anxiety (by a tiny bit) but mostly inability to sleep for about a week. That was a month ago.
Now, any body with high benzo tolerances that were NOT dependent and could stop relatively easy and cold turkey with minimum discomfort?
Lordy! I had the most epic of withdrawal when I got up to 5mg+ xannys a day for about a month. I really do wish you luck, wd is different for everyone. I attempted a cold turkey from Xanax, but gave that idea up about 4 hours later when it felt like my teeth were rotating in their sockets. LITERALLY the most horrible feeling I have ever, ever felt.
I wouldn't recommend a CT from hard benzos like that, because the risk of seizure is very real. Try halving your dose and see what occurs. If that's ok, halve it again and keep going until it's too much to bear.
If halving what you're on now is too much to bear, prepare yourself for the longest, most horrible protracted withdrawal of your life. Actually, prepare yourself anyway, because it sounds to me like you're in dangerous waters already. Let's hope I'm wrong.
It took me like 2 years to properly get over the withdrawal from benzos. I had a heavy habit for 3 months, then sloooooooooooowly tapered from that over another year or so. It then took at least a year of daily panic attacks and generalised anxiety disorder before I began to feel even vaguely like myself. That being said, I slogged through it, went to work and whatnot and lived some semblance of an existence. I was petrified of being on my own. For 6 months, I only got 2 hours sleep a night if I was lucky. It very nearly sent me completely mad (madder than I already am). To this day I cannot nap during the day, or I get viciously stabbed awake by a massive wave of anxiety. That being said, for every year that passes with no benzos, I'm that much more my own self. It's just a painfully long road, and there's no avoiding it. I'm also an opiate addict, but they're just child's candy compared to what benzos did to me.
My advice if wd does set in is to ditch the short-acting benzos and switch over to valium solely. The halflife of that is huge, so withdrawal is much easier. I don't want to seem a harbinger of doom, but really - nothing, nothing at ALL even touches the sides compared to benzo WD, both physically and mentally. It is pure, pure hell in a handbasket. Sort this out NOW!